Worthing Flash

Emma Still Sings   Jesus loves the little children, Emma sang with fourteen other seven-year-olds in her Sunday School class back in 1969, her eyes lifted to the stained-glass sunlight that she thought so beautiful only God could have sent it directly to her. All the children of the world, she sang. Red and yellow, black and white, she sang. They are precious in his sight.             Emma knew she sang off-key, so she offered her song softly. She tried to believe that Jesus could hear her voice, feel her love, despite the many better voices floating heavenward. Sometimes, she only mouthed the words, her voice shadowed by her shyness. But she meant each syllable that crossed her lips.             Only one classmate sang as bad as Emma, but he didn’t know it. He thought everyone looked at him because he sang so wonderfully. He thought his volume and his classmates’...

144 TO BOSTON RAJAN V KOKKURI   “GIVE ME A CHILD TILL HE IS SEVEN & I WILL GIVE YOU A MAN” Bruce Lipton      The 1 st seven years of the child’s life is programming and next few next years are expression of that program. I and my mother used to live in our ancestor house at a remote village of Thrissur. My father used to work in Bangalore those days. My mother had been to his place for few days vacation and returned. On that day I went to take bath in pond in our house. Generally, I try to swim on the steps and take bath. That day I saw wooden pole at distance I swam to that location without telling anything to my mother and swam back safely. My mother did not know I had learned swimming. Initially, she thought I had slipped into deep water. I had given a surprise and her anxiety became happiness suddenly. This was the 1 st wonderful achievement of my little childhood. ...